Monthly Archives: December 2009

Animal rights campaigners are threatening to sue rockers AC/DC if they go ahead with a concert in Austria. No, not because there will be KFC sold there, but because the music could harm the birds. I kid you not. AUSSIE ...

As you may have already heard, there was an attempted terrorist attack on a Northwest flight from Amsterdam bound for the United States. The perpetrator? A Nigerian man who ignited a small explosive device aboard the flight. Damn, why can’t ...

Today, the IDF shot and killed the 3 palestinian terrorists who murdered Israeli father-of-seven Meir Hai on Thursday. And guess what? They included one who had recently been released from an Israeli prison and one who agreed to lay down ...

According to the Jerusalem Post, Israel and the US Consulate are embroiled in a dispute. Which tends to happen when you try to run over a Defense Ministry security guard with your diplomatic car. A dispute is rumbling between Israel ...

Syrian Dorktator Bashar al-Assad said that peace talks with Israel have been stalled because Israel was not interested in achieving peace. “We discussed today the ways to bring the peace process out of the deadlock that it has reached … ...

Israel yesterday reportedly gave a German mediator a list of 100-130 (125?) palestinian terrorists convicted of direct responsibility for the deaths of Israelis to be expelled to the Gaza Strip or abroad and barred from returning to the West Bank. ...

After marathon talks last night, Gilad Shalit’s fate seems no clearer, with the Prime Minister’s Offices stating that the negotiation “have instructed the negotiation team regarding the continuation of the effort for returning Gilad Shalit home safe and sound.” In ...

After convening three times yesterday, the seven-member inner cabinet is set to meet today to discuss a proposed terrorist exchange for Gilad Shalit with Hamas. While it has been called “a make-or-break situation,” state officials have estimated that the deal ...

More photos here. The Jewish Chronicle reports: David Beckham has paid his respects to his Jewish grandfather Joseph West, at the funeral held in Golders Green cemetery. Wearing a blue kippah and his grandfather’s blue Tottenham Hotspur tie, Mr Beckham ...

Ha’aretz reports: The series of attacks on Israeli targets in Turkey planned by Hezbollah, as reported in the Turkish media, which was foiled by Turkish security forces two months ago, is likely to have caused the tension between Israel and ...

Anti-Israel loonblogger Richard Silverstein organized “a series of media and public events on the Iranian nuclear crisis,” which was designed to “explore ways of resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis through negotiation, rather than force.” Amongst the ideas expressed at this ...

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